The North American Review, Volume 132University of Northern Iowa, 1881 - North American review and miscellaneous journal Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... question was incidentally treated by the late Mr. Buckle , in the book which , twenty years ago , was so stimulating and instructive to youthful minds . Mr. Buckle laid it down as one of the cardinal points of his theory of history that ...
... question was incidentally treated by the late Mr. Buckle , in the book which , twenty years ago , was so stimulating and instructive to youthful minds . Mr. Buckle laid it down as one of the cardinal points of his theory of history that ...
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... question of morals is largely also a question of intelligence , and conversely . For example , let us consider what political economists call the " effective desire of accumulation . " As a rule all men 4 THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW .
... question of morals is largely also a question of intelligence , and conversely . For example , let us consider what political economists call the " effective desire of accumulation . " As a rule all men 4 THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW .
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... question of no great consequence . Their little passions warming with the discussion , they pass from argument to abuse , they call each other hard names , and , at last , they begin to pound each other . Most people , I imagine , must ...
... question of no great consequence . Their little passions warming with the discussion , they pass from argument to abuse , they call each other hard names , and , at last , they begin to pound each other . Most people , I imagine , must ...
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... question , " What course should we take now ? " - Marlborough and Wellington , Gladstone and Disraeli- are fair English types of what we are describing . Washington , Adams , Madison , Hamilton , Burr , Webster , Clay , Calhoun , and ...
... question , " What course should we take now ? " - Marlborough and Wellington , Gladstone and Disraeli- are fair English types of what we are describing . Washington , Adams , Madison , Hamilton , Burr , Webster , Clay , Calhoun , and ...
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... question of present spoils , leaving opposing views of govern- ment to be quarreled over by the chiefs and leaders without having been passed upon at all by the people at the elections . Their utter and almost ludicrous hollowness is ...
... question of present spoils , leaving opposing views of govern- ment to be quarreled over by the chiefs and leaders without having been passed upon at all by the people at the elections . Their utter and almost ludicrous hollowness is ...
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Page 346 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence, and affect the community at large.
Page 501 - Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low ; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; 6 And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
Page 356 - Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
Page 21 - It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will...
Page 138 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last — far off — at last, to all, And every winter change to spring.
Page 404 - Once as I told in glee Tales of the stormy sea, Soft eyes did gaze on me, Burning yet tender ; And as the white stars shine On the dark Norway pine, On that dark heart of mine Fell their soft splendor.
Page 414 - Not only, therefore, can there be no loss of separate and independent autonomy to the States, through their union under the Constitution, but it may be not unreasonably said that the preservation of the States, and the maintenance of their governments, are as much within the design and care of the Constitution as the preservation of the Union and the maintenance of the National government. The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States.
Page 575 - Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Page 414 - And the powers of the General Government, and of the State, although both exist and are exercised within the same territorial limits, are yet separate and distinct sovereignties, acting separately and independently of each other, within their respective spheres.
Page 143 - A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.